Ashura

The day of Ashura is an essential event withinside the Islamic calendar that incorporates a religious and historic importance for each Sunni and Shia Muslims. For the Sunni majority, the day is marked with fasting and unique prayers in mosques. For Shia Muslims, it marks the anniversary of the killing of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein in the course of the Battle of Karbala, and is consequently an afternoon of mourning.

Shia rites at the day encompass colorful performances re-enacting the war's events, with the devoted taking up the function of Hussein and his fans as they took on Umayyad forces unswerving to the Caliph Yazid I. The war passed off in 680 CE and even as it became one of the reasons for the break up among Shia and Sunni Muslims, it began to be lengthy earlier than spiritual variations among Sunni and Shia factions had crystallized.

Time: 10th day of Muharram

Location: All around Iran